KFF Health News September 19, 2024
Last month, Planned Parenthood Great Plains opened its newest clinic in Pittsburg, Kan., a city of about 21,000 people mere minutes from the borders of both Missouri and Oklahoma.
It’s the second new clinic the regional affiliate has opened in Kansas in a little over two years, to accommodate the growing number of patients coming from Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and even Louisiana.
For many people in the South, Kansas is now the nearest place to get a legal abortion.
Fourteen states have enacted abortion bans with few exceptions since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022 left policies on abortion to the states. Many more have limited access.
And yet, the estimated number of...
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